JAMES FRANCO SELECTS...
James Franco, actor
Frank Smigiel, associate curator, public programs, SFMOMA
Phyllis Wattis Theater, 1:00 p.m.
Safe
Todd Haynes, 1995, 119 mins., 35mm
Phyllis Wattis Theater, 3:00 p.m.
Set in an affluent suburb in the San Fernando Valley in 1987, the film tracks the physical and psychological breakdown of Carol White (Julianne Moore), a house wife suffering from multiple chemical sensitivity, or “Twentieth Century Disease.” Trying to cope with her unpredictable reactions to seemingly harmless everyday products through psychotherapy, she eventually retreats from the invisible chemical threats and enters a New Age community designed to help people with MCS recover.
Double feature: $5 general; free for SFMOMA members or with museum admission.
FOLLOWED BY:
John Frankenheimer, 1966, 107 min., 35mm
The Castro Theater, 7pm
429 Castro Street, San Francisco
Frankenheimer’s riveting film unfolds as a disillusioned middle-aged business man is given the opportunity to be reborn as someone else through a mysterious organization known only as The Company. Having successfully faked his own death, he under goes extreme plastic surgery and psychoanalysis and returns, completely transformed, as Tony Wilson, a handsome young painter played by Rock Hudson. As he lives out his seemingly idyllic new existence he begins to face the consequences of his new identity.
